I love arrest stories. I have never been arrested, though I have had a couple of close brushes, and of course I've had a few speeding tickets.

My closest brush involved the time I went drinking with a buddy of mine, and we got into a mock fight in the parking lot when we left the place. Somebody must have thought we were serious and called the cops. My friend left and I was pulling out of the place when a cop pulled in and signaled for me to pull over. He asked me to wait while he investigated a call they had gotten.

A short time later, he let me go. My real concern was not the fight, which was clearly not serious, but the possibility that I may have been over the legal BAC limit. My driving record was not great to begin with at that time - I had just been to court for my second speeding ticket within a short space of time - and I didn't need more trouble. Luckily, nothing happened.

That same friend got arrested once for driving a moped the wrong way up a one-way street and zig-zagging between cars.

I used to like engaging a little bit in drunken and disorderly conduct, and I liked to do things like knock over, bend, or otherwise damage signs. Another thing I used to do is go out driving with a couple of friends late at night, and deliberately go the wrong way up one way street, running red lights and stop signs. I could still do it now, under the right conditions.

NYM90 - Your football game story reminds me of something that happened to a couple of friends in high school. They were caught at the heinous crime of throwing soda cans at a football game. The following Monday, the dean made a whole announcement to the school about how such idiotic behavior would not be tolerated. They were given a whole week of after-school detention, plus a Saturday detention. It was pretty funny.

StatesRights - I want to hear your arrest stories.

Yeah, I was throwing marshmallows at some of my friends. Got ejected and given a $50 civil infraction...that seemed pretty bogus to me.

The closest brush with the law I've had was one night I was using 1-800-COLLECT to make prank phone calls and costing people money because I swore it was an emergency. They threated to call the cops. I was 9 so I was scared to death.

I've gotten in trouble in school many times, mostly for gambling and violence.

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A candidate who lost the area where I was working fairly badly, larger by the margin of the vote in the election. He though I had fixed the election somehow.

I didn't, but I didn't want to give him the satisfaction. I'd worked the area for months. I'm not sure if he was looking for me, but I wasn't going to take any chances.

It was a county wide race and ended up in the State Supreme Court. 2000 was giving me flashbacks to college. :-)

And I was expecting to hear a story involving some type of drunken debauchery....well, it's better than anything I have. The best I can come up with is speeding tickets, though I have some friends who could tell some interesting stories. I did some things that I could have been arrested for, but I was pretty good at avoiding getting caught.

I don't think I know anybody who has been arrested for anything serious. Some of my friends were regulars in traffic court, and I know a few people who got arrested for alcohol and drug related offenses, but I don't know anybody well who was ever sentenced to anything worse than some hours of community service. The worst legal penalties I've ever incurred have been (repeated) fines for speeding. What a boring life I've led...

Neither do I, anymore. And even the illegal stuff I did was pretty lame. The worst I ever did that I can remember, aside from my near miss with drunken/disorderly conduct and possible DWI, was when I knocked over or damaged road signs, and put M-80s in the coin returns of public phones. But that was a LONG time ago...